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Several countries are evaluating the possibility of extending the System of National Accounts (SNA) to incorporate some form of Environmental Accounting (EA), that is a systematic body of information about the state of natural and environmental resources. Its introduction is important at least for two reasons: 1) the general redesign of the SNA structure (see discussions by Eisner [1988] and [1989] and Bradford [1990]) affords the opportunity to introduce new elements 2) the growing importance attached to this information for decisions concerning economic policy, especially in the light of the attempt to achieve the process of sustainable development described for example in Solow [1991].
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Beltratti, A. (1996). Environmental accounting and policy: A theoretical framework. In: Musu, I., Siniscalco, D. (eds) National Accounts and the Environment. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Series on Economics, Energy and Environment, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1592-3_4
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